At Home with Marcus Hamilton (Photo Essay)
Photographer Wade Allen and The Shelby Star spent part of this past weekend visiting Dennis the Menace cartoonist Marcus Hamilton, and recorded the visit.
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Wolfgang Fuchs – RIP
Comics author, historian, and translator Wolfgang J. Fuchs has passed away.Wolfgang J. Fuchs September 16, 1945 – January 20, 2020author, journalist, film historian comics author, historian, translator From Karen Green, Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia University Libraries:Just seeing the news, posted by his daughter Anna, that Wolfgang Fuchs passed away this morning. Wolfgang was […]
A Winter Wonderland of Famous Funnies
Crime SuspenStories “Jolting (or Joking) Tales of Tension” – I’ve been enjoying Dan Thompson‘s detective noir parody. This particular Crime Story, ripped from the files of Rip Haywire, began three weeks ago. Young Romance However Don Wimmer strikes me as three weeks early with today’s Rose is Rose. Although it is never a bad time for […]
“Feiffer On Nixon” in the Trump Era
“It’s déjà vu all over again.” – Yogi BerraSo Michael Tisserand took 1974’s Feiffer On Nixon down from the shelf…Recently, I re-read Feiffer on Nixon while, in the background, live impeachment proceedings played over my computer. It produced a feeling that, at least for a short time, mimicked a sense of calm. While the faint […]
First and Last – Friday Foster and Torchy Brown
January 18, 1970, fifty years ago today, heralded the debut of the first “mainstream” comic strip starring an African American heroine: Friday Foster by Jim Lawrence and Jorge Longaron. above: the January 18, 1970 Friday Foster debut strip (hat tip to Doc Vassallo)The strip would run four years never getting a large number of newspapers […]
Marshall Ramsey, Drawing His Own Conclusions
Marshall Ramsey gets a nice two and a half minute segment on WJTV.Marshall Ramsey creates not only words but thoughts and ideas and opinions – mostly his – in our minds with the cartoons he creates. Some of the situations he draws are so obvious they fall right out of the sky – sort of […]
Rachel Lindsay Returns to Seven Days
Cartoonist Rachel Lindsay has returned to Vermont’s alternative weekly Seven Days with a new strip.Last summer, with the July 31, 2019 issue, Rachel signed off on her weekly comic strip Rachel Lives Here Now saying goodbye to her readers and fans. (For the record Rachel Lives Here Now began January 13, 2016.)Two weeks later Iona […]
Hey Kids! Comics! Read Comics, Get Smarter
Language experts have been studying the act of reading comics and its effect on the brain, and they have arrived to the conclusion that reading comic books makes you smarter.Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for January 2020 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or […]
Ron Rogers – RIP
Editorial cartoonist Ron Rogers has passed away. Ronald L. (Ron) Rogers May 13, 1954 – January 7, 2020 Editorial cartoonist, newspaper illustrator, graphic artist and designer.From the Richmond Free Press notice:Ron Rogers, a longtime political cartoonist whose start began in 1980 for the former Richmond Afro-American and Planet, died Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020, after a sudden […]
Andertoons Professional Cartooning Workshop
Famed cartoonist Mark Anderson is holding a cartooning workshop in May.I’m pleased to announce the very first Andertoons Professional Cartooning Workshop! It’s a full weekend of in-depth cartooning with me. We’ll cover everything from writing great gags to the nuts and bolts of selling cartoons. You’ll leave educated, energized and inspired to achieve your personal […]
Brother Rock Comic Strip Gets into Print Paper
Randy Gabbard has been in the rock and roll music scape for decades … now he’s turned all those experiences into an eclectic comic strip that explores the life of an aging, would-be rock star and his antic-driven sidekicks William, Bosco the dog and a gaggle of feisty ducks. In 2016 Randy partnered with cartoonist […]
Robert Light – RIP
Editorial cartoonist Robert Light has passed away.Robert W. (Bob) Light [RWL] April 11, 1961 – October 18, 2019 From the Gibson Publishing obituary:Robert Light, famed Delta cartoonist, passed away on Oct. 18 after a long bout with an illness at 58. Light worked at the River News-Herald and Isleton Journal, the sister paper of the Benicia […]
150 Years Ago: Thomas Nast & Democrat Donkey
In the January 15, 1870 issue of Harper’s Weekly Thomas Nast published his first Democratic Donkey cartoon. The repeated use of the image by the Dean of American Editorial Cartooning insured that the symbol would become lasting. By the 1880s it was understood by all that The Donkey equaled The Democrats.The above cartoon is often […]
The End of Editorial Cartooning’s Golden Age?
above: David Lowe“Their power comes from their emotional punch. It gets in under the reason and the rationality and it speaks to the heart,” she tells RN’s Big Ideas. “It helps people articulate something that they’ve been feeling but perhaps haven’t been able to say and certainly not as succinctly and powerfully. So, it’s an […]
Bruce MacKinnon – Venting Via Editorial Cartoon
“Not everyone can vent the way an editorial cartoonist can.” Bruce MacKinnon portrayed Canada as an innocent victim of two Warmongers.The cartoon went viral and CBC Radio interviewed the cartoonist, who got on the topic of cartooning comedy versus tragedy.